Meaning & use
morsel
A small piece or amount of food, or more broadly, a small portion of anything.
See it in a sentence
She saved the last morsel of chocolate cake for after dinner.
He shared a morsel of gossip with his neighbor before hurrying off to work.
A note on using this word
Morsel is often used with of, as in a morsel of food or a morsel of information, and it has a slightly literary tone.
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